Loretta stood up from the console and stretched as there was a slight change in the gravity. Likely the transition from the non-artifical gravity of Earth over to the gravity being produced by the Ark itself. It'd likely be a long time before she herself felt the true pull of gravity, she had no doubt they'd see worlds before the Ark was put to rest, though she didn't hold everyone elses optimism that they'd find a new world to live on within the first year. After all there was more than simply looking for a planet that they could breathe on, they had to take into account what the plant and animal life was like as well as the seasons. Simply setting down on the first rock they could live and breathe on would be a mistake, one that her fellow educated peers knew off. At least she hoped they did, the ones she had talked to about it did at least. She still stood that they would be far better off converting the Ark into a fully fledged space station, they had the drones and the materials to turn it into a large construct. Why bother with a planet at all?

Planets just caused trouble in the long run, look at the current Devastator attacks for example. A space station like the [i]Vitae[/i] with the ability to move when necessary would have made the extinction of the most of the human race impossible, as they would all have just left. Though Martians and Terrans were always so sentimental about their home planet, even those from the Lunar Colonies were strangely affixed to the moon. It never made sense to her why you would tie yourself down to a specific location, while many Armani tied themselves down to ships these ships never lingered for too long lest someone was wrong. To be Armani was to be constantly on the move, which was why these last couple of years, and even the years she had spent studying, were complete and utter torture.

Standing up she looked back at the console, as the face of an occupant in one of the cryo-chambers flickered briefly disappearing. She turned to one of the assistants in the lab. "Flemming, run a diagnostic on the monitoring system. I've got a flicker on my screen, make sure that we don't have a serious glitch on our hands. I expect the results back by the end of my lunch break."

"But my lunch break-"

"Will start after you've finished running the diagnostic. It's your system, so you make sure it's working. That's only logical." Why some people couldn't understand these simple bouts of logic was beyond her. She stood up and walked out of the Cryogenic bay and towards the transit system. A short time later she was in the hub, it always impressed her when initially walking into the hub. She had seen commerce centres on space stations before but this was truly impressive, the scale of it was something else. Walkways left right and centre, signs for various establishments littered the small city. People walking around discussing all matters, as not everyone was needed during take off. It surprised her how calm everything was, though most people who had been on the ship for any length of time had said their piece on leaving Earth behind.

However there was the occasional teary eyed group. She sighed as she entered a small diner and sat down, the waitress didn't even bother to ask her her ordr. She had been coming here every day since it opened, and always had the same meal. She turned to the screen as she saw the Ark begin to rise up into the sky and sighed. It was time to return to the stars.